Category: Management Tools

As customers accelerate their migrations to the cloud and transform their businesses, some find themselves in situations where they have to manage IT operations in a hybrid or multicloud environment. These customers are faced with additional complexity when it comes to operating their applications and infrastructure. They often must use solutions from multiple providers to […]

Today we are happy to announce the all-new AWS CDK Observability Accelerator – a set of opinionated modules to help you set up observability for your AWS environments with AWS Native services and AWS-managed observability services such as Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Grafana, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and Amazon CloudWatch. AWS […]

AWS CloudTrail tracks user and API activities across AWS environments for governance and auditing purposes and allows customers to centralize a record of these activities. Customers have the option to send AWS CloudTrail logs to Amazon CloudWatch that simplifies and streamlines the analysis and monitoring of AWS CloudTrail recorded activities. Amazon CloudWatch anomaly detection allows […]

Service control policies (SCPs) are a set of policies that allow organizations to manage permissions using AWS Organizations. SCPs help control access to AWS services and resources provisioned across multiple accounts created within an organization. In addition, SCPs enable you to set up permission guardrails by defining the maximum available permissions for IAM principals in […]

In this post, we will show how to downgrade SQL Server from Enterprise edition to Standard edition on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2) instances to help you reduce cost. If you are not using any of the features of Enterprise edition, you can downgrade to Standard edition. Here is the flowchart that can help you identify […]

Customers who run containerized workloads on Kubernetes clusters on their hardware use Amazon EKS Anywhere (Amazon EKS-A). Customers look for prescriptive guidance for the observability of their modern applications running on EKS-A. Using AWS-managed open-source services such as AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT), Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, and Amazon Managed Grafana helps customers to offload […]

A guide for IT practitioners The “criticality” of technology that impacts our day to day lives is more pertinent and broader reaching than ever before. Nowadays, we’ve become accustomed to reliability and always on systems and can see the impact on our lives when things go wrong. Therefore, to meet customer expectations in the face […]

Since AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) has been positioned as the recommended service for (rehost) migrations to AWS, we have seen an astounding speed of new feature releases, multiple enhancements, and continuous innovation aimed to address customer needs. AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is a highly automated move and improve (rehost) solution that […]

Monitoring performance metrics of AWS resources is crucial for any business use case running in cloud. AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices recommend customers to setup observability and monitoring for their infrastructure on AWS. But, as AWS usage for customer increases, it gets harder to observe and visualize the data and metrics at scale and identify […]

In this guest post, Kaitlyn Fedorak (Engineer) and contributors, Cody Olsen (Senior Engineer), Will Scott (Engineer), Samuel Raghunandan (Engineer), from Xero discuss their use of AWS Systems Manager Inventory and State Manager for configuration management of Amazon EC2 instances. Any team or company can leverage a similar design described in this post to save on […]